Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

That was a high-definition photo.

The red-haired girl is beautiful and smiles gently at the camera. Her short, smooth red hair is like a burning flame, shaking with a dazzling luster.

Her name and age are written below the photo: Kotomine China (24).

Rabbit looked at the photo, and a feeling of uneasiness made his heart twist into a knot.

He had seen her in a restaurant a few weeks ago, and he had seen her smile happily as she repeatedly told another girl who looked like her about her boyfriend's care and the sweetness of her love.

Now she has become a cold corpse.

"Bah-"

At this moment, the fingerprint verification door of the apartment suddenly opened. Rabbit's body shuddered, and the black mist instantly surged to an unprecedented height.

This made him immediately notice the person at the door. It was Aoyagi Binguang who had returned.

Aoyagi Binkou also saw the black fog that almost touched the ceiling at a glance. He quickly walked from the entrance to the living room and then saw the news.

The photos on the news disappeared, and the reporter narrated more details of the case in a calm and impersonal voice.

Rabbit really wanted to say something to his teammate, such as telling him the identity of the deceased, but before he could open the system, he saw him looking at him.

"Sorry I'm late, what would you like to eat?"

Aoyagi Binkou's tone was as gentle as ever.

……

Aoyagi Binguang came to the kitchen, took out the dough that had been fermenting before he went out tonight, and slowly began to review what had happened during this period.

He likes this very much. Being able to do two things at once allows him to relax and think about more details.

During this period, two important things happened.

The first one was the Red Hair Serial Murder Case, and the second one was the attempt by the organization Nerum to find Goldwasser's mistress and get information from her.

These two things are related to each other, and both have some guidance from him.

The incident originated from the fact that he and Kudo Shinichi went to the Colombo restaurant in Beika-cho.

When he saw the red-haired girl for the first time, Aoyagi Akimichi thought of not Hakubato's girlfriend that Rabbit had mentioned to him, but an online friend in the Hojo Touka fan chat room.

——The Kamen Rider of Colombo who always defends the police and likes the bait case in Konko.

The online name is the same as the store name, and there is a Kamen Rider pendant on the phone she held up.

Of course, he was not sure at first, it might just be a coincidence, but Lumbo and Kamen Rider were not unpopular. But after Rabbit said she was Jealous' girlfriend, he fell in love with her.

While chatting with Kudo Shinichi, he listened to what they were saying. He wrote down her speaking habits and compared them with the chat records when he returned.

By the way, he also looked at her personal space. She didn't have any selfies, only photos of tourist attractions. He flipped through the photos and promotions near the restaurant and confirmed that the "Kamen Rider of Colombo" who liked the bait case was Baijiu's girlfriend.

In the chat room that day, Hojo Toika asked them what their favorite case was. He mentioned the Akama case, which was very similar in method to his favorite "The ABC Murders". Then he thought about what he could do next.

He committed the Red Hair Serial Murder Case.

The first case was not committed by Aoyagi Akimichi, he just borrowed the case he heard on the same day. The deceased had the same red hair as Kotomine Chinna, which was simply an opportunity given to him by God.

His goal is simple, he wants to strike at the willpower of Jealousy.

The rules of the game state that players are immortal in the game, and there are only two ways for them to exit the game: first, all players complete the task; second, willpower drops below 20.

The player has a protective aura that other players cannot break. Aoyagi Akimichi cannot use physical attacks (he doesn't really like to torture others personally), so he uses mental attacks.

He specifically followed a map to find the location where the body was dumped, so that the police could predict the next location;

In order to make the case more serious, the people he killed included a gangster's illegitimate son, a diplomat and a young master from a wealthy family.

This way, the pressure of solving the case is high, and the credit after solving the case is also great, so Bai Jiu, who is eager for promotion, can easily fall into the trap.

He persuaded Yan Fengqina to buy insurance, and coaxed her to do something "within her ability" in the chat room. People who are immersed in love are also prone to do stupid things for their lovers.

In fact, Qing Yanagi Bingguang could have killed her directly without wasting time and effort on so many roundabout ways that he was not good at, but he still did it.

——Because the mental trauma caused by "girlfriend being killed" and "girlfriend who had bought high insurance for him being used as bait and then killed" is different.

Especially since Baijiu has the ability to read minds that cannot be turned off. For such a narrow-minded person, the doubts in other people's minds after her death are far more painful to him than the death of his girlfriend itself.

The only trouble with this plan is whether Bai Jiu will stop his girlfriend from doing such a dangerous thing.

But Aoyagi Akimichi felt that the probability of him stopping it was very low.

That day in the restaurant, he heard the conversation between the Kotomine sisters. Kotomine China was so happy for so long about something that ordinary friends would casually remind each other, and she kept talking about it to her sister until she was tired of hearing it. This clearly shows Baijiu's usual attitude.

Aoyagi did another thing: he tried to drag Bourbon into the game.

——That's right, Bourbon was just unlucky enough to be dragged along. Aoyagi Akiko had no ill will towards the undercover agent. After learning about the buggy skills of other players, Aoyagi Akiko paid more attention to them than the undercover agent.

Aoyagi Akimichi's target, Kotomine China, is not just Jealous' girlfriend. Those memories show that she was once saved by police academy student Bourbon, and she knows Bourbon's identity.

In other words, as long as she meets Bourbon, she may be able to expose Bourbon's identity.

So Aoyagi Akimichi called Goldwasser and asked him to do a favor from the United States and encourage Rum to go to the port area to find a red-haired woman.

Rum is the second in command after all. He will send his close subordinates to look for the person first, and will only go out personally if there is no result.

Aoyagi Akimichi could not control Bourbon's actions, control where he went and what mission he performed, so he could only do the opposite - let things happen in the port area, increasing the probability that Rum would send people to investigate in the local Bourbon.

Even so, the success rate is less than half, and Rum has more than one or two subordinates. After leaving Kotomine's house in the form of an animal messenger, Aoyagi Akiko called Gin to ask if there were any other subordinates of Rum nearby.

Unexpectedly, it really worked and Bourbon met her.

It's just that things didn't turn out as expected.

Bourbon was better than Aoyagi Akiko thought. He knew clearly that Kotomine China was innocent, but he still harmed her without mercy to avoid exposing himself.

As expected of Witt’s junior, the Japanese Public Security Bureau has done a good job in training in this area.

Qing Liu Bingguang was not disappointed, after all, he was just harming him for the sake of convenience. Success is a good thing, but failure is also fine, there is no loss anyway.

After finishing his thoughts for a while, Aoyagi Binguang took the baked bread out of the oven.

The bread was heavy and gave off a nutty aroma. He often ate this kind of bread when he was a child and knew how to make it with his eyes closed.

Aoyagi Binguang cut the bread, put it on a plate, and returned to the living room. At this time, the news was still showing the sixth red-haired serial murder case, and it was Rabbit who changed the channel.

When the reporter mentioned the serious mistakes within the police, he sat next to the rabbit and asked, "You are concerned about this?"

[The news just said that Baijiu will be suspended for investigation...]

Aoyagi Binkou was not surprised when he saw this. He knew this would happen when he asked Teraoka Katsutoshi to go, although his original intention was just to let Hakuba know that it was the organization that did it.

"It won't be long." He said calmly, "Don't forget, Pride is here."

The rabbit stopped talking, turned back into a rabbit and started to eat bread. Aoyagi turned his eyes away from him, looked at the TV screen, and thought of the other players.

Hojo Toika, her disadvantage is that her skills are quite complicated, but her advantage is that she is quite smart - Vermouth, who she often deals with, is so simple that it makes people feel at ease.

But he would not let his guard down. Her skills were so terrifying that he had to be extremely alert to deal with her.

It has been determined that wearing glasses or something covering her eyes can provide a preliminary defense, but she has a passive skill, and it is not yet certain to what extent the amplification can be achieved, and what will happen if she loses control.

Also, he remembered that in the memory of [Jealousy], Bai Jiu once found that his will had been modified and ran to quarrel with Hojo Toika. The skills of the passerby camp have a 150% effect on the red side... How did he realize this? Can others do this?

Aoyagi Akimichi kept thinking.

The more he thought about it, the more he realized that there were far more uncertainties than he had imagined.

At present, he has only confirmed the situation of four players including himself. He has no idea about the other three people, their identities, skills, animal messengers, personalities and positions.

Especially the other red player, who restrains him in terms of camp attributes... What kind of person is that?

……

The rabbit lowered its head and ate the bread.

He wasn't actually hungry. He had eaten some snacks when Aoyagi Binkou left, but he forced himself to focus on this and not think about the news.

After entering the game, he read more murder reports in one day than he had in the past week. His only feeling was “Another person died, this is worthy of being the Conan world”, and it didn’t feel real at all.

But now, someone he had seen in real life was brutally murdered.

The rabbit felt inexplicably anxious.

An indescribable feeling spread in his heart, like an endless abyss that made him dare not look directly at it, dare not... continue thinking about it.

After eating the bread, he turned on the system and secretly glanced at his willpower.

That number has dropped to 49.

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At the same time, Beihu Prison.

"...You need painkillers again?"

"Yeah!" A prison guard looked helpless, "He just ordered a bottle two weeks ago, and he finished it all so quickly. It's like he took drugs!"

The prison guard who came to take over was probably afraid of the cold, so he was dressed very warmly, leaving no skin on his arms and legs exposed.

He glanced at the door behind his colleague and heard faint groans and struggles from inside, and something flickered in the brown eyes.

"Akamatsu." A colleague called him, "Go get him some medicine. I'll stay here and watch him for now."

He nodded and turned to leave.

When he reached the corner of the stairs, in a blind spot where there was no surveillance, he raised his hand and touched his right eye.

……

Outside prison.

The little snake, whose color was particularly close to that of the wall, completed its mission for the day, retracted its venom-covered teeth, and slipped away through the window.

A pair of eyes of a bird of prey in the woods, piercing through all the darkness, stared at it motionlessly.

I'll take a day off on Thursday to sort out the follow-up_(:з」∠)_

Chapter 106 The author can't come up with a title

Metropolitan Police Department, outside the special detention room.

"Can't you just visit for a while and say a few words?"